and since I'm on the market for a touch pad device anyway, I'll buy this one, even if don't end up modding it. After the purchase I will inform their customer representative that the decision to buy their device is owed partly of them upgrading to ICS and boot unlocking.
The article sounded like what we were around 5 to 6 years ago. Now everyone is expected to have mobiles from school kids to my grandmom (84 years old).
A prepaid subscription costs around RM8.90 (USD1.00 = RM3.8) with no obligation to stick to it. If you don't like the plan just throw the sim card away.
I think you must be one of those snotty nosed scrawny teenagers reading the slashdot comments ONLY looking for any opportunity to flame someone, anyone. I think you also one of those who would like to be the first to post a comment,regardless of opinion or lack of it.The fact that you posted your answer as AC just made this clearer to me. Your language also showed me what a matured open minded individual you are.
If you got any guts talk to me with your real ID.
If any of these is actually getting to you, read more, please..? Some people actually don't want to read only modded 5 comments. The reason is simple: It doesn't work all the time.
Don't post in AC if you got any real balls, talk to me..please...?
I have been really turned of reading Slashdot's comments section today. It seems that there are more junk posts vying for attention than ones that are actually interested to discuss the subject matter. I think as slashdot gets more popular, there will be more of these. Perhaps one day I would just stop reading slashdot for any intelligent discussion whatsoever; there are just too many shit to plough through. I hope this day will not arrive.
1) Put the decryptors in a remote island 2) Make them wear skimpy clothing 3) get them to compete in small subgames, such as
blow the fish up etc.. 4) Get an affable good looking host to..err host.. 5) Get cameman to zoom in on their mental games an
anguish as they try their best to out-decrypt the
other contestants.
The smartcard technology where the idea was proposed was also radio frequency based. In fact technically there is no diffrence compared to RFID..
1)The smartcard-reader constantly emits a RF. 2)When a smartcard chip is within the vicinity of the reader(and thus the radio waves), its coils generates electricity from the reader, powering the chip enough to run its software. 3)The sofware does whatever it need, sending or reading data.
The was absolutely no need for physical contact whatsoever between the smartcard and the reader and data can move bothways.
That is why I think that the whole RFID idea itself is nothing new really...Perhaps getting this technology to be actually accepted requires more bussiness momentum rather than technological gizmology..
I came across a similar proposal a few years ago. Rather than using RFID, the said idea was to inversely uses RF smartcard chips. For example, maintanence staff are required to carry a mobile smartcard reader with a built in database, and the smartcard chips are installed at specific locations on where they are supposed to do their maintanence duties. Whenever they are at their supposed locations, they'd need to use the reader on the chips before going on to their next location. This adds some security and ensures the maintanence crew to actually go on site.
However no one in the company took the idea to execution; perhaps it was'nt sexy enough..?
I wonder how's this RFID thingie gonna be accepted in the real world.
I'm not sure about crowded streets since being a slashdotter, I would not know about crowded streets..:)
Seriously though, what I personally see is that the general public is getting more responsible with their phone ethics.Perhaps This might be due to the fact that the everyone from 10 year olds to my 83+ y old grandma uses one. It is so pervasive that perhaps people learnt to be embarassed if they draw negative attention to themselves when using cellphones.
In South-East Asia, where I am from, having a handphone is almost as important as being literate;you can't really live without it.You can but its hard to communicate long distance since public land-line phones are not well mantained and are in generally bad condition.Its no longer a matter of status/fashion statement.
This is why public cell-phone ethics is a serious issue here.In general, the older ones have a tendency to talk too loudly, however I do noticed that the younger generations have learnt to speak as unobtrusively as possible, maybe realising the phone-speaker can actually pickup their voice without having to shout across the room.
Slashdot Mirror
and since I'm on the market for a touch pad device anyway, I'll buy this one, even if don't end up modding it. After the purchase I will inform their customer representative that the decision to buy their device is owed partly of them upgrading to ICS and boot unlocking.
Voting with my dollars.
Pretty soon.. people may decide to stop doing business with USA...
Ouch, guilty as charged, I should have kept reading rather than hastily posted the first link google gave me.
:/
The majority of the muslim world still believes that suicide, either as bombers or otherwise, taking innocent lives etc are forbidden in Islam.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/reac_ter14.htm
I wasn't trolling in my earlier response
The article sounded like what we were around 5 to 6 years ago. Now everyone is expected to have mobiles from school kids to my grandmom (84 years old).
A prepaid subscription costs around RM8.90 (USD1.00 = RM3.8) with no obligation to stick to it. If you don't like the plan just throw the sim card away.
B*===>
"We have to solve an energy problem not an energy carrier problem."
There. nuff said.
....
Oh my Gawd!!The hair!!Noo!!!
Boss : Uhh Dave, what was the quotation from India
....uhh I got it on a postit somewhere..
........
again..?
Dave:
Boss :
I feel sorry for you.I wished there are better solutions..then again there are nothing much we can do about things. Good luck to you..
good job.If you posted in your real ID i'd modded you up.
Dear Mr. Anynomous Coward,
I think you must be one of those snotty nosed
scrawny teenagers reading the slashdot comments ONLY looking for any opportunity to flame someone, anyone. I think you also one of those who would like to be the first to post a comment,regardless of opinion or lack of it.The fact that you posted your answer as AC just made this clearer to me. Your language also showed me what a matured open minded individual you are.
If you got any guts talk to me with your real ID.
If any of these is actually getting to you, read more, please..? Some people actually don't want to
read only modded 5 comments. The reason is simple: It doesn't work all the time.
Don't post in AC if you got any real balls, talk to me..please...?
You're the fuckhead if you still don't undestand what I'm talking. Fucking cowardly fucking fuckhead
I have been really turned of reading Slashdot's comments section today. It seems that there are more junk posts vying for attention than ones that are actually interested to discuss the subject matter. I think as slashdot gets more popular, there will be more of these. Perhaps one day I would just stop reading slashdot for any intelligent discussion whatsoever; there are just too many shit to plough through. I hope this
day will not arrive.
1) Put the decryptors in a remote island
2) Make them wear skimpy clothing
3) get them to compete in small subgames, such as
blow the fish up etc..
4) Get an affable good looking host to..err host..
5) Get cameman to zoom in on their mental games an
anguish as they try their best to out-decrypt the
other contestants.
voila..$1Million Cash Prize
Myabe because the distant nebulaes and stuff are actually billions times trillions times gazillions times larger than sedna...?
The smartcard technology where the idea was proposed
was also radio frequency based. In fact technically there is no diffrence compared to RFID..
1)The smartcard-reader constantly emits a RF.
2)When a smartcard chip is within the vicinity of the reader(and thus the radio waves), its coils generates electricity from the reader, powering the chip enough to run its software.
3)The sofware does whatever it need, sending or reading data.
The was absolutely no need for physical contact whatsoever between the smartcard and the reader
and data can move bothways.
That is why I think that the whole RFID idea itself is nothing new really...Perhaps getting this technology to be actually accepted requires more bussiness momentum rather than technological gizmology..
I came across a similar proposal a few years ago.
Rather than using RFID, the said idea was to inversely uses RF smartcard chips. For example, maintanence staff are required to carry a mobile smartcard reader with a built in database, and the smartcard chips are installed at specific locations on where they are supposed to do their maintanence duties. Whenever they are at their supposed locations, they'd need to use the reader on the chips before going on to their next location.
This adds some security and ensures the maintanence crew to actually go on site.
However no one in the company took the idea to execution; perhaps it was'nt sexy enough..?
I wonder how's this RFID thingie gonna be accepted in the real world.
I'm not sure about crowded streets since being a slashdotter, I would not know about crowded streets..:)
Seriously though, what I personally see is that the general public is getting more responsible with their phone ethics.Perhaps This might be due to the fact that the everyone from 10 year olds to my 83+ y old grandma uses one. It is so pervasive that perhaps people learnt to be embarassed if they draw negative attention to themselves when using cellphones.
In South-East Asia, where I am from, having a handphone is almost as important as being literate;you can't really live without it.You can but its hard to communicate long distance since public land-line phones are not well mantained and are in generally bad condition.Its no longer a matter of status/fashion statement.
This is why public cell-phone ethics is a serious issue here.In general, the older ones have a tendency to talk too loudly, however I do noticed that the younger generations have learnt to speak as unobtrusively as possible, maybe realising the phone-speaker can actually pickup their voice without having to shout across the room.
My 2 cents